ELKO, Nev. • The familiar sound of drunken merriment impedes the crowded main street of Deadwood as a man with a thick, white beard smokes a cigar and plays piano in the Gem Saloon. Reverend Smith, ...

"When we wrote this song, I had the mountains of North Carolina where I grew up in mind; all the moonshining history there in the Appalachians," writes the country star. "Then all of a sudden during ...

You never know what you will find in the diverse American region of Appalachia, which stretches from southern New York state all the way down to northern Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Hidden in ...